Grammar Gumballs® Game

The sweet game for teaching basic grammar skills!

by Michelle Ostrow and Kris Scheller
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Grades PreK-3

Grammar Gumballs is a sweet game for teaching and reinforcing basic grammar skills in young children. It targets nine of the early morphemes and grammatical structures identified by Roger Brown (1973). Children with language and learning difficulties often leave these structures out of their speech. Grammar Gumballs includes five levels of difficulty for each illustration. You begin with a simple listening/imitation task and gradually progress to spontaneous production.

Grammar Gumballs includes 180 illustrated cards (20 for each area) and an activity booklet to help you teach the nine grammatical forms. The activity book includes a CD-ROM for printing all activity pages.

Present Progressive Verbs

Irregular Past Tense Verbs

Subjective Pronouns

Copula Verbs (Is/Are)

Regular Plurals

Possessive Nouns

Regular Past Tense Verbs

Irregular Plurals

Possessive Pronoun

To play, fill up the gumball machine game board with gumball tokens. Choose the card set(s) you wish to teach. Have the students draw a card. Then, read the questions that match the card from the lessons and activities book. As the students answer the questions, they spin the spinner and take that number of gumballs from the machine. At the end of the game, the student with the most gumball tokens is the winner!